Advances in the theory and practice of field experiments have created demand for expert evaluation of their findings. As field experiments become increasingly ambitious and creative, many seek accessible insights that a comprehensive, critical review can offer. Contributors to this extraordinary volume explain how to conduct experimental research, present a catalog of what the research has found thus far, and describe which areas remain to be explored. The section on methodology should be of particular interest to scholars working with experimental methods. Among substantive findings, contributors report on a body of results in areas from politics to education to firm productivity, demonstrating the power of these methods while shedding light on issues such as robustness and external validity. Separating itself from circumscribed debates of specialists, this volume surpasses in usefulness the many journal articles and narrowly-defined books written by practitioners. Balances methodological insights with analyses of principal findings and suggestions for further researchAppeals broadly to social scientists seeking to develop an expertise in field experimentsStrives to be analytically rigorous while written in language accessible to graduate students and non-specialist economists INDICE: 1. Field Experiments in MarketsJohn List and Omar Al-Ubaydli 2. The Personnel Economics of the StateBen Olken, Rohini Pande and Frederico Finan 3. Field Experiments on Voter Mobilization: An Overview of a Burgeoning LiteratureDonald Green and Alan Gerber 4. Field Experiments in MarketingDuncan Simester5. The Econometrics of Randomized ExperimentsGuido Imbens and Susan Athey 6. Social Policy: Mechanism Experiments and Policy EvaluationsJeffrey Kling, Jens Ludwig, Bill Congdon and Sendhil Mullainathan 7. The Politics and Practice of Social Experiments: Seeds of a RevolutionJudy Gueron8. Field Experiments on DiscriminationMarianne Bertrand and Esther Duflo 9. Impacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income CountriesPascaline Dupas and Ted Miguel 10. The Practicalities of Running Randomized Evaluations: Partnerships, Measurement, Ethics, and TransparencyRachel Glennerster11. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field ExperimentsRoland Fryer12. The Psychology of Construal in the Design of Field ExperimentsElizabeth Levy Paluck and Eldar Shafir 13. Decision Theoretic Approaches to Experiment Design and External ValiditySylvain Chassang, Abhijit Banerjee and Erik Snowberg 14. Field Experiments in Developing Country AgricultureAlain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Tavneet Suri 15. Lab in the Field: Measuring Preferences in the WildUri Gneezy and Alex Imas 16. Designing Social Protection Programs: Using Theory and Experimentation to Understand how to Help Combat PovertyRema Hanna and Dean Karlan 17. Social Experiments in the Labor MarketTil von Wachter and Jesse Rothstein 18. Field Experiments in Education in Developing CountriesKarthik Muralidharan
- ISBN: 978-0-444-63324-8
- Editorial: North Holland
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1024
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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